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Reception and Book Signing with Guy Mendes
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesInstitute 193 hosts a reception and Walks to the Paradise Garden book signing with Guy Mendes on Thursday, March 14 at 6 pm. Institute 193’s forthcoming book, Walks to the Paradise Garden is their production of the last unpublished manuscript of the late poet and provocateur Jonathan Williams, with photographs by Roger Manley and Guy Mendes. […]
Art: Closing Reception for Natalie Baxter: OK-47, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesThe closing reception for Natalie Baxter's OK-47 is at Institute 193 at 6 pm on April 16. "Floods of recent media coverage have turned the public’s attention to increasingly common mass shootings and conversation to the politics of gun control. Feeling powerless to act within these cycles of destructive outbursts and stagnant Congressional proceedings, Natalie Baxter […]
ART: Opening Reception: Erin Eldred’s “Fabricate”, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesThe Opening Reception of Erin Eldred's "Fabricate" is Thursday, October 1 at 6 p.m. at Institute 193. "Erin Eldred talks to fibers, and they talk back—so to speak. She describes her process as an immediate dialogue between herself and her materials. Lately, Eldred says she works mostly on looms (which she builds herself), stating that […]
Art: Opening Reception for Matt Minter’s Makeup Applied, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United States"Matt Minter is a Lexington, KY-based countercultural polymath known for music projects (as vocalist and conceptual mastermind behind the noise-rock outfit Wretched Worst), video production, and, perhaps most notably, illustration work. Regardless of medium, his collective creative output mercilessly taps the same singular vein of darkly humorous psychosexual horror tableaux."
Art: Stephanie Dowda’s Genius Loci, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesOpening reception for Stephanie Dowda's Genius Loci at Institute 193 on Friday, April 3.
Eugene Meatyard: Photographing Thomas Merton, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesThis Friday during Lexington Gallery Hop, Institute 193 will be hosting an opening reception of Photographing Thomas Merton, an exhibition of portraits of Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. During their brief friendship, which was cut short by Merton's untimely death in 1968, Merton and Meatyard held intense conversations, exchanged letters, and Merton became the subject for a series of photographs by Meatyard, the […]
GIGS: Cheyenne Mize and Kalispell, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesKentucky for Kentucky presents an intimate, living room-style acoustic show featuring Louisville songwriter Cheyenne Mize and Kalispell.
ART: Lonnie Holley, Institute 193
Institute 193 193 N. Limestone, Lexington, KY, United StatesOpening reception for Lonnie Holley: Stepping in the Footprint Institute 193 / 193 N. Limestone St., Lexington, KY 40507 April 18, 2013 5-8 PM Institute 193 presents “Stepping in the Footprint,” an exhibition of work by the Alabama-based artist Lonnie Holley. The exhibition includes a series of new paintings, sculptural found-object assemblages, and site-specific installations […]